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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 13d

The real political parties in UK are perhaps not the nominal ones.

Regardless of supposed affiliation of ministers, Treasury will always push for certain policies, MOD will always push for certain policies, etc. Each department has their agenda.

And the Home Office will always push for ID cards.

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Sarah Chalmers Page @sarahchalmerspage.bsky.social · 15d

-no sympathy at all frankly. The computers must be sucking the boring, boring supremacist nonsense and terrible adjective use from somewhere.

Open to real book recommendations about *interesting* werewolves, of course. Mildly fond of Gail Carriger.

Sarah Chalmers Page @sarahchalmerspage.bsky.social · 15d

If anyone knows how to tell Facebook I have no interest at all in cookie cutter, probably AI books about bitchy supernatural eugenicists I'd be delighted because despite being 1/3 of my ads it's inexplicably not an ad category I can block.

And if you are a human who writes these things-

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Sarah Chalmers Page @sarahchalmerspage.bsky.social · 15d

At some point I must have accidentally clicked on the advert for some trashy novel about werewolves with fated mates. Now roughly 1/3 of my social media adverts are for wretched werewolf romances with wretched nasty people- not interesting nasty, playground bully nasty. And stupid eugenics.

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Sarah Chalmers Page @sarahchalmerspage.bsky.social · 16d

...and even that would be fine if that wasn't how policies are being set at the moment.

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Sarah Chalmers Page @sarahchalmerspage.bsky.social · 16d

...especially one open to education.

But whoever made the video had clearly not bothered to research the very well established people who talk about domestication, or a *single* museum of rural life, or indeed researched anything other than "aw! Fur baby!"

...

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Sarah Chalmers Page @sarahchalmerspage.bsky.social · 16d

...had ever had to earn their keep. That there may have been a dog criteria more important than perceptual cuteness. I had to break out my computer and show him sheep dog trials (which were on the telly when I was small), and old engravings of mastiffs. Now, that's forgivable in a 10 year old...

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Sarah Chalmers Page @sarahchalmerspage.bsky.social · 16d

...the best pets.

I said babe, even when I was young, many dogs worked. We bread smart dogs for herding, fierce dogs for guarding, fast dogs for hunting. Companionship was only one goal, but in all cases, cute came in far far later. And he had simply never heard of the concept that dogs...

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Sarah Chalmers Page @sarahchalmerspage.bsky.social · 16d

...it's illustrative of some of the "just so" stories that only exist when people have no idea of what actually happened in history. Little son told me that the theory went that dogs were domesticated when humans made friends with the wimpiest, stupidest, cutest wolves because they were also...

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Sarah Chalmers Page @sarahchalmerspage.bsky.social · 16d

My son, puppies, and ahistorical discussions, a thread.

My son came to me with a YouTube theory - I try not to dismiss these because a) some of them are good, and b) I want him to keep bringing them to me so I can gently debunk the ones that want debunking. This one is interesting because...

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 16d

Defend Our Juries: "Mass arrests of peaceful protesters will be acutely embarrassing" for Labour on Day 1 of conference.

Labour officials also rejected all 30 motions on Palestine - leading to anger from campaigners.

DOJ: Most Labour members oppose the ban and the TUC recently backed reversing it.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 16d

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

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Dame Knitting Cat @dameknittingcat.bsky.social · 16d

It takes a long time to turn a shit, I mean ship.

Is this the start? 🤞

aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 16d

I'm sorry WHAT is this?

Is Farage actually being held to account?
By FOUR front pages of UK newspapers?
re his paper-thin populism and solutionless policy?

Fuck me gently. Forgot what this actually looks like.

Maybe Sun & Telegraph will find their balls tomorrow?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17d

It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor

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Sarah Chalmers Page @sarahchalmerspage.bsky.social · 16d

Really good!

Sarah Chalmers Page @sarahchalmerspage.bsky.social · 17d

Tonight I have been mostly learning about Medea, the earliest example I know of bombed at the box office then became a classic, in every sense of the term. Thank you to @nataliehaynes.bsky.social It was a brilliant night.

I am on the bus holding a copy of No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes. My hand is in shot, I am not. The book is teal with an awesome sheep- it is, in fact, the golden ram with the golden fleece from Jason and the Argonauts. No, the kraken was only in the film. The golden ram has duck egg horns. There's a sticker saying the book is the signed indie edition, and it is. Natalie signed it for me even though I am tired and probably spouted utter nonsense.

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Sarah Chalmers Page @sarahchalmerspage.bsky.social · 19d

Which I'm given to understand is a relatively rare level of forbearance.

I want to live in his world.

I've been playing him Stake a Claim by @scroobiuspipyo.bsky.social - he's taken more action than most of my adult friends.

Sarah Chalmers Page @sarahchalmerspage.bsky.social · 19d

...next to the existing posters so everyone sees the real ones are better.

So my boy is essentially creating the world's most polite protest. A protest that creates an *evidence base.* With no damage.

The school appear to be tolerating this shocking level of dissent.

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Sarah Chalmers Page @sarahchalmerspage.bsky.social · 19d

My son tells me he is having an "uprising" in school. The teachers are using AI generated posters.

He views this as unreasonable when there's a whole school full of kids who can draw posters.

So he's working with his friends to quietly make alternative posters and put them up...

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Sarah Chalmers Page @sarahchalmerspage.bsky.social · 20d

My last two return journeys on that route have been completely trouble (and unicorn) free - believe me no one was more surprised than I am and it in no way invalidates your question. It just proves it is possible, therefore should happen more often.

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Sarah Chalmers Page @sarahchalmerspage.bsky.social · 20d

I saw a job advert today for a trainee @nationaltrust.org.uk Lichenologist and I want to know why no one told 17 year old me that lichenology was an option. I'm not retraining now, getting home for pick up would be a nightmare if work was half way up a mountain. But still.

Sarah Chalmers Page @sarahchalmerspage.bsky.social · 21d

I really wish political parties would stop believing the response to their opponents is to go "hey, we're just like those other guys, except, like, the diet version!".

Labour being diet Tory/Reform over here is disastrous, I can't imagine diet republican is going to work out any better.

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 22d

21st century Britain
where it's illegal to project an image on a wall
but not illegal to supply weapons to mass murdering genocidal psychopaths

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 22d

I still have my 'Natural Law Party' Hoodie from 1995, when I got a A+ for an essay on Transcendental Meditation.

Local Authority @localauthority.news · 22d

A Medway school is giving away a Reform football shirt as part of an essay writing contest on how the party has 'obliterated' the two-party system. They say this is all normal, and they do this for all parties.

Students, parents, and other politicians disagree.

Our exclusive story:

Farage football shirt offered as essay prize in Medway school

Plus Medway MP gets promoted and hears from the worst people, news in brief, and more

www.localauthority.news

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 23d

This has affected me greatly having seen close up the vitriol coming from "Tommy"'s hate marchers on Saturday. The fear those poor NHS workers must have felt as their hospital was laid siege to by a rampaging mob must have been terrible. Meanwhile complacent ministers claim not to be disturbed.

Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 23d

😥😥😥😥
Read and weep

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